One occupant charged with arson

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The rear of a Sugar Mill Creek apartment complex reveals the devastation left Thursday after Michelle Hershberger, a resident at the complex was arrested and accused of intentionally starting the fire that quickly destroyed the entire 9-unit building in the multi-building complex on Wednesday.

Jason Clark / Courier & Press 2014

Erin Cole peeks into the window of her apartment at Sugar Mill Creek the morning after a fire quickly destroyed the entire nine-unit building. Cole was at home with her two daughters, ages 7 and 3, and made it out after someone alerted her by beating on her door.

Jason Clark / Courier & Press 2014

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Evansville Fire Investigation Supervisor, Richard Howard looks into a window at 4921 Northlake Drive in the Sugar Mill Creek apartment complex on Thursday after Michelle Hershberger, a resident at that unit was arrested and accused of intentionally starting the fire that quickly destroyed the entire nine-unit building in the multi-building complex.

Jason Clark / Courier & Press 2014

EVANSVILLE - Erin Cole returned Thursday morning to what was left of her residence in the Sugar Mill Creek apartment complex on North Green River Road, hoping to recover something — pretty much anything — from the burned-out town house that she had called home for the past two years.